USGS 7.5' topographic map Mount Elbert, Colorado[2]
Climbing
First ascent
July 26, 1873 Hayden Survey
Easiest route
Northwest Ridge or Southwest Ridge: Hike (class 2)
La Plata Peak is the fifth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The prominent 14,343-foot (4,372 m) fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 22.7 miles (36.5 km) northwest by west (bearing 308°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.[a][1][2]
"La Plata" is Spanish for "The Silver", a reference to the many silver deposits in the area. The nearby ghost towns of Winfield and Hamilton were prominent silver mining towns in the early part of the 20th century. A Hayden Survey team first climbed the peak on July 26, 1873.[3]
The elevation of 14,361 feet marked on the USGS Mount Elbert Quadrangle is incorrect, and should read 14,336 feet (in the NGVD 29 vertical datum).[4]
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^Gerry Roach (1999). Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs. Fulcrum Publishing. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-1-55591-412-7.
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